Practical notes on IT, automation and running the systems behind a small business.
Multi-factor authentication stops most account takeovers, and a small team can turn it on in one afternoon. Here's the order to do it in.
If someone on your team copies the same information from one system into another, you're paying a re-typing tax. Here's how to find the one worth fixing first.
Most small-business backups are never restored until the day they're needed. Here's a 15-minute test that tells you whether yours actually works.
A 20-minute check of your software subscriptions that usually turns up seats nobody uses. Here's the exact order to do it in.